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Keep your distance

Cells headed for the developing retina know what job they have to do. And once they get there, John Whitfield reports, they know how to assume the correct position.

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  1. Galli-Resta, L. Local, possibly contact-mediated signalling restricted to homotypic neurons controls the regular spacing of cells within the cholinergic arrays in the developing rodent retina. Development 127, 1509 - 1516 2000.

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Whitfield, J. Keep your distance. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000504-5

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